Harriet Rohmer (born 1938) is an American author, editor and publisher who won an
American Book Award
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and founded
Children's Book Press
Lee & Low Books is an independent children's book publisher focusing on diversity.
History
Lee & Low was founded in 1991 by Chinese Americans Tom Low and Philip Lee as a children's book publisher specializing in books featuring people of color a ...
. She worked for
UNESCO
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in Paris on
Third World
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cultural programs. Her work appears in ''
Passages North
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,'' the ''
Louisville Review'', the ''Jewish Women's Literary Annual'' and ''
Zeek
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''.
Works
* ''Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento''
*''Mr. Sugar Came to Town'', 1989
*''The Woman Who Outshone the Sun''
* ''Last of the Refuge Cities''
* ''Just Like Me''
* ''Uncle Nacho's Hat''
* ''Honoring Our Ancestors''
* ''Heroes of the Environment'', 2009
References
External links
* http://www.heroesoftheenvironment.com/
1938 births
Living people
American Book Award winners
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
American women children's writers
American children's writers
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